Cowherd heading to campus

ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd will visit Columbus next month for a live installment of The Herd With Colin Cowherd.

The national broadcast (and webcast) will air from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 2 -- the day before the Ohio State-

Wisconsin football game -- from Eddie George's Grille 27, 1636 N. High St.

Doors will open at 8:30 a.m., with free admission.

The trip to Ohio will mark the third Cowherd appearance with ESPN affiliate WBNS (1460 AM).

He visited Columbus last year during OSU-Michigan week and in 2005 for the Texas Longhorns showdown with the Buckeyes.

Magician to show up on Spike

Magician, escape artist and Columbus product Curtis Eugene Lovell II will divulge a few secrets of his trade -- specifically, tips on releasing oneself from handcuffs -- during an episode of MANswers at 11 p.m. Wednesday on Spike TV.

"I can give you three easy and effective ways to escape from 'cuffs -- for the next time you find yourself in a pair," he said. "You wouldn't believe how handy it is to know."

Lovell, who attended Columbus State Community College, lives in Long Beach, Calif.

In previous TV appearances, he cut Paris Hilton in half on the reality show The Simple Life and presented his "Cube of Death" -- a Houdini-type contraption -- on the USA series Character Road Trip.

More TV fans watching online

Almost 16 percent of the U.S. households with Internet access watch TV shows online, according to the Consumer Research Center of the nonprofit Conference Board.

During the past year, the center says, the number of consumers viewing entire episodes on the Internet has doubled.

"Although online television viewing is still not a widespread phenomenon, the proportion of users . . . is likely to increase over time," says Lynn Franco, director of the center.

Almost 73 percent of online households, the center says, use the Internet daily for entertainment, with an additional 15 percent several times a week.

TV programming has replaced news as the most widely viewed content online.